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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

EXTENSIVE BUILDING.-A Washington
carpenter who was in this city last night
said that the contractor VINO employed him
had recently told his hands that in a short
time he would send them to this city 10 erect
a large number of houses. 1t is said that
the houses will be built by Mr.. Buchanan,
who has recently purchased the square
bound by Lee, Fairfax, Jefferson and Greene
streets
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

ARRESTED on SUsPICION.--Lieut. Smith
this evening arrested two colored men
named Tom Fleming and Richard Williams
and locked them up Mt the station house,
they being suspected Of knowing something
about the killing o: Officer Arnold. Both
men admitted having been here with
the circus on the night Arnold was killed,
and Williams had pistol which ne yester-
day left at Sefer Blouse's, which carries a
ball of the same calibre as the pistol which
killed Arnold. He also says be heard the
firing on the night in question, but says he
knows nothing of the shooting.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

There is no change to note in Flour; sales are
of a little better volume than usual at this season
and the supply is fully equal to the demand. The
Wheat markets for two or three days past have
been dcmoralized, and prices have been driven
down on futures about ten cents per bushcl. spec.
ulation grades being in full sympathy, bnt the
decline has not been anything like so great for
flinty. sound milling Wheat. which is in constant
demand. Corn is active aud higher FOR white,
while yellow and mixed arc quiet and unchanged.
Rye and Oats are steady. Produce is easy and in
more liberal supply.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

AN AMERICAN WOMAN 91URDERED.-The
Department of State has received from the
Consular Agent at San Juan del Norte, Nj
oaragua, a report OF the murder Of an Amer
lean widow, Mrs. Lydia j. Thurbnrn, at the
headwaters of Great River, in Nicaragua.
The murdered woman was engaged IN bust
ness op reservation, and is believed 20
have come from Cincinnati The details OF
The murder ere not yet known, but 1t ap-
pears that she had been threatened and perse-
cuted by couple of natives Tor sone time.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

Gnsl,g concerned in, after which the hoard
adjoufned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

liz WE BOARD on ALDERMEN
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-06-15

POLICE REpoRT.-l4ast night was cloudy
and cool with six prisoners and one ledger
at the station house.
The Mayor this morning disposed of the
following cases
Davis for disorderly conduct, was fined So
Kitty Lindsay, colored. arrested by officer
Martin for disorderly conduct, was fined So
A small white boy, arrested by officer
Hayes, charged with taking books from the
store OF Mr. G. E. French, was released on
the promise OF his parents to correct him.
Junius Jones and Josephine Petit, arrested
by It, Smith on telegram from Richmond,
charging them with running away, were
turned over TO the Richmond authorities.
Geo. Smith, for refusing to work on the
chain gang. was locked up at the station
house.
Eph Lee, arrested by officer Davis for dis
orderly conduct, was fined 81.
Geo. Swansbury, arrested by officer Grady
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
Sherman's Fatal Blindness. z

In 1884, he treated the signifcant
bolt which defeated the party only
with petulance and irritation, as
whimsical. ill-tempered and outrage
GUS folly. 1t was not creditable to a
man of Mr.. Sherman's ability to mis-
conceive SO totally movement of which
he now undoubtedly perceives the i'm
portance. The same want of percep.
tion is shown in his present sneers at
the President Mr.. Sherman misstates
the fact when he says that the Admin
istration has made no proposition to
reduce the surplus, and he Is evidently
unaware of the strong hold that tho
President has taken of ''the plain peo-
pie" by the obvious good sense and
intelligent uprightness of his course.
His vetoes of the Dependent Pension
bill, and of individual pension bills,
and of the Texas Seed bill, and his ap-
pointment of the Interstate Com
merce Commissioners, are recent illus
trations of an Independent and able
and patriotic discharge of public duty
which have impressed the country in a
way which no passing sneer even of so
distinguished an opponent as Mr..
Sherman can affect.-Harper's Weekly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
No Corner" on Good Ideas.

The bidding for gun steel and armor
plating for the navy at Washington ex-
torts from the Tribune the following
reluctant tribute to the success of Sec
retary Whitney in securing American
bids:
When he succeeds in securing bids from re-
sponsible American houses for gun steel and
armor plates there is no ground for criticism.
The promotion of American industries is al
ways wise and popular policy.
Mr.. Whitney has simply gone about
this business in this matter in prac-
tical and patriotic way. He has Sc
cured the best information available
from all over the world. In awarding
contracts in the execution Of which
foreign experience is of immense
value, he gives the preference to Amer
lean industries. The country has rea-
sons to be thankful that Republicans
have not been able to devise prohib-
itory tariff on information and ideas
Washington Star.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
LATER NEWS.

The U. 8. Consul General at Berlin re.
ports that a police order has been issued
there requiring all persons to abstain, un-
der penalty of the law, from the use of the
designation american dentist" in con-
nection with the title of doctor.
The plate mill, of the Keystone Iron
Works, Pittsburgh, closed on account Of
increased freight rates due to the inter-
State commerce law.
JAMES FOLEY, aged eleven years, was
crushed to death between cars at Shenan-
doah, Pa.
AT New Orleans Dennis Maher was
shot and killed by Richard Greeley, his
son-in-law.
In fight between police and tramps at
East St. Louis, one of the latter was fatal
ly shot.
THREE thousand hod-carrlers have been
ordered to quit work by the Union at
Chicago.
GEORGE AYERS and Henry Lindsay, of
Louisiana, Mo-, quarreled about an in
debtedness of IS, and Ayers cut Lindsay's
throat.
A TANK of the Standard Company, at
Lima, containing 35, 900 barrels of oil, was
struck by lightning and fired on the first.
AT Putnam, Ct, while boating, Mrs.
Henry Abury, Peter Braso and Sarah Nc
Avoy we carried over waterfall and
drowned.
THOMAS DURHAM, convicted of murder in
the second degree at Scranton, Pa, was
sentenced to solitary confinement without
labor for twelve years.
THE bodies of three negroes, brothers,
named Sylvester, were found hanging to a
tree near Proctor, W. Va. Each bore a
placard stating that they had been lynched
for stealing.
The estate of the late Alexander Mitch
ell, of Milwaukee, is estimated at from
SIS, 100000 to S25, 900, 900. His only son is
the principal heir. The public bequests
aggregate $4,000.
THE three-months old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. August Homan, of No. 33 Hughes
street, Cincinnati, was strangled or smoth-
cred to death while sleeping between it's
| parents, by blanket becoming wound
| around its face and neck.
SCHNAEBELs received an ovation upon his
| return home. He afterward proceeded to
Paris to be examined by the Foreign Of
| flee. 1t is said he will be retired on a PEN
sion.
EDWARD r. SAMUELs, a st. Louis mer-
chant, suicided by jumping off railroad
| bridge at that city.
Four children, while boating with Mr..
Thos. Sammons, at Paris, KY, were car
ried over a dam about twelve feet high,
| but all were rescued.
| NEAR Etnaborough; Pa, Charles Oswald,
| a blacksmith, smothered his daughter and
cut his throat. Domestic and financial
troubles had turned his brain.
TsEAs we're Il. 900 pensions Issued during
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
A LENlENT VERDICT.
An Assertion That the Jury In the watt
sohwartx Case Erred, II ut All en the
Side of McrCy to the Culprfts.

An Assertion That the Jury In the watt
schwartx Case Erred, II 1t All, On the
Side of Mercy to the Culprits.
Commenting on the verdict OF inn
prisonment for life pronounced by the
jury against the prisoners on trial for
the murder Of Express Messenger
Nichols, the Chicago Herald says:
1t was the instant and unanimous
verdict of the jury that tried Watt and
Schwartz that both were guilty OF the
atrocious murder of Kellogg Nichols.
Such a conviction was forced. prob
ably, upon the minds of most persons
who followed the trial as reported in
the newspapers. The verdict was inn
prisonment for life. If these men were
guilty the death penalty might more
properly have been pronounced upon
them, for the killing Of brave man en-
gagged in the faithful performance OF q
duty, defending his trust fearlessly and
aggressively until stricken down by
vulgar robbers who, for protection,
probably, from the consequences o1
their crime, became assassins. was moi
only an actrocious, it was also despi.
cable crime. The mere robbery would
have justified the imposition of q long
term of imprisonment upon the offend.
ers. The crime deepened into murder.
is not sufficiently condemned, the
assassins are not adequately punished,
short of the gibbet. It is odd. then,
that where there was such unanimity
of conclusion as to the guilt of the
accused and q sentence which
might be regarded as mercifu
under the circumstances, any sug
gestion should be offered that. ths
punishment named by the jury is ex'
treme. The prisoners are entitled tt
the usual review, but upon the finding
of their guilt, finding generally con
ceded to accord with the fact. they ar
entitled to no consideration whatever
If guilty, they may thank their star
that the jury has been SO lenient as tt
give them life sentence.
The case seems to have been fairly
tried. The State was jealous and indie
fatigable. The defense was the strong
est that could be made. It is highly
improbable that the jury has erred. T,
seek sympathy for the prisoners whil'
admitting their guilt is ridiculous. Il
the horrible crime there wasn't a singl,
mitigating circumstance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
EoREloM IMIELLIoENcE.

A quarrel arose among the guests who
assembled to celebrate the marriage of
Benito Hernandez and Juanita Alvidez,
near Merida, in Yucatan, Mex, few days
ago, and seven Of them, including the
groom, were killed.
Mgr, Rampolla, Papal Nuncio at Madrid,
to whom was rendered a short time ago the
position of Pontificial Secretary of State,
which he declined, has been induced to re-
consider his refusal, and it is said will as
sumo the duties of his new Office at once.
A Quebec (Can.) dispatch says that black
fever, accompanied with diphtheria, is
making sad ravages among the people in
the valley of the st. Maurice. Eight deaths
have occurred in one family at Mount Carl
Doe, and the disease was spreading.
The green glass factory of the North
American glass works at Montreal, Can,
burned on the 2Sth ult., entailing loss of
s220, 1000, and throwing $50 men out of en-
ployment.
Dispatches from Australia tell of ter
rife hurricane which recently swept the
southern coast, and state that forty boats
engaged in the pearl fishing industry, hav-
ing on board crews aggregating $50 men,
were lost.
The late Mgr. Catildi, formerly Master of
Ceremonies at the Vatican, bequeathed, in
his will, the whole of his property, valued
at 20 900 francs, to the Pope.
1t is reported that an English syndicate
has bought the Mullatto's mine in Mexico,
paying e660, ,0OO for it. 1t is said that Sena-
tor Hearst, of California, offered 100000
for the mine two years ago and was refused.
Inspectors say if properly worked it can
yield 81, ,O00, 600 annually. There is now 15,-
600, 600 tons Of ore in sight, assaying from
s16 to SIS per ton.
NJ. Harbette, French Ambassador at Ger
many, telegraphed his government on the
10Th ult. that Prince Bismarck had ordered
the unconditional release of NJ Schnaebeles,
the French Commissary. 1t is said the
latter will at once be placed on the retired
let
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
WIT AND WISDOM.

Riches will never take wings and
fly away. if you sprinkle the salt of
economy and prudence on his tail. -:
Pretzers Weekly.
The man who doesn't know much,
and his name is legion, is the one most
anxious to display his knowledge,
-Drake's Travellers MagGzine.
Teacher Can any boy tell me at
what time the sun rises nowf Small
Boy (shrill and prompt )-ust the
minute father calls, down at our house.
"A sentimental writer asks: ..Did
you ever watch dear baby waking in
the morningP" Many times, It gem
orally occurs about five o'clock. and
enables the father to get up splendid
appetite for breakfast. Dry Goods
Chronicle.
-Husband-What are you going to
take that scrap of lace along forf
Wife-Scrap, indeed! That's my
handkerchief. 10. that's it, Eyes.
and, by the way, forgot to give you
yours. It's up stairs on the '.Never
mind, dear, I've a postage stamp"
"A letter has Just been disentombed
in Pompeii, just where the district
messenger boy lost it SOC, 900 years
ago. The boy is supposed to be still
alive and slowly wandering along in
the direction of the house at which the
letter was to be delivered. Burdcttc.
1t Matters Much
sit matters little where WAS born,
Or whether my parents were rich or poor;
Whether they felt the cold worlds scorn,
Or walked In the pride Of wealth secure.
But whether live an honest man
And hold integrity firm in my clutch,
tell you, my brother, plain Is can,
It matters much
1t is not what man has seen but
what he has read that makes him
learned. 1t is better to know one great
mind than it is to visit three great
countries. The wisdom we get from
looks brcadens the mind; the expert
ence we derive from travel sharpens
the wits.
An Absurd Proposition.-Lily (Sec-
retary of the Cooking Glass;
girls, we've learned nine cakes, two
kinds of angel food and seven pies.
What nextP Susie (engaged) Dicks
father says must learn to make bread. -
Indignant Chorus-"BreadP Absurd
What are bakers forP" PittsbHrgh Bull
letin.
"A witness who was called to prove
the correctness of a doctors bill. was
asked il the doctor did notmake sever
al unnecessary visits-did not continue
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05


There are one hundred and ninety
college papers in this county.
The Methodist Church gained one
hundred thousand now mcmbers In the
United States last year.
About one hundred boys are In
the plumbing class Of the New York
trade school engaged in studying the
art.
The Protestant baptisms through
out Japan average at tho present time
about one hundred and twenty each
week.
Knox College has sent into the
foreign field, in all, eight ordaiSed mis-
sionaries and eight assistant female
missionaries.
-Amherat Colleges memorial Of
Beecher will be ffty-thousand-dollax
endowment of the Professorship Of
Physical Culture.
The Hebrew Christjan asserts that
there are 1O0, 900 Jews who are Chris
tians, though there are only $50 mis-
sionaries to the Jews in the world.
Christian Uni0n..
"A half century ago in Turkey II
was considered q shame tor woman
to read. To-day two schools in Con-
stantinople have been established BY
the Sultan himself.
Baptist missionary Diaz says there
are three thousand converts In Cuba
waiting to seize the opportunity to be
immersed by night to eiude the vigi-
lance of the priests.
The Waldensians, at the General
Conference at Florence, It6ly, havc
decreed that hereafter women members
shall be allowed to vote, but not to
speak at church meetings.
| Sister Mary Innis, an inmate Of
Mercy convent Pittsburgh. Pa, has do
mated $780, to the sisterhood Of
which she is q member. The money
will be used in the erection of an
industrial home for girls and . chapel.
Chicago Times.
The English Baptists show . con-
slant advance in foreign missionary
work. The society last year accepted
twenty-one new missionaries Itwholly
sustains III missionaries and assistant
missionaries, 336 native pastors and
evangelists.-M r Witness
Christians are like the several
flowers in {. garden, that have each Of
them the dew of heaven, which being
shaken with the wind, they let fall ct
each others roots, whereby they
are jointly nourished, and become
nourishers of each other. BunyGn.
The American Board has expended
in the first half of its fiscal year, about
$40, 900 more than for the same period
last year. This is on account Of the
large number Of missionaries sent TO
Japan last fall, and to the new open
ings at Sendai and at Shantung, China
DIR. A. D. Mayo says there is .
State industrial college for white girls
at Columbus, Miss, not yet two years
old, which has about five hundred
teachers ard pupils, doing earnest and
successful work. He calls Columbus
..one of the most attractive towns Of
the Southwest. "-C Cdngreg0tionalsst.
The Baptist Social Union Of Boston
is trying the experiment Of giving first
class sacred concerts for workingmen
and their wives on Sunday afternoons,
and it. is claimed that the experiment
has been . most gratifying success.
The concerts have been held in the
Harvard Street Church. The projectors
of this rather novel religious service
believe that through music they viii be
able to lift workmen up to the concep-
ton of some of the grander possibilities
of religious life.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
"sRANDEo" AS "TRAlToRs.. !.


An Inoomplete List Of Those Who Hsve
Party-A Political and Pathological Pro-
test.
Horace Greeley was one of those who
rocked the cradle of the Republican
party. In 1872 he left it. At once he
became TRAITOR
Henry Ward Beecher's voice was one
of the first the infant Republican par
ty learned to listen to. He left the
party in 1884, and at once became q
sstraitor."
George William Curtis, whose high
attainments and high character had
been for years source of strength to
the same party when it most needed
strength. left it few years ago. Hc
became s'traitor."
James Russell Lowell, whose pen oi
fire kindled the consciences of thou
sands upon thousands and helped to
make the Republican party possible, il
now denounced as a " mugwumpn and
q s'traitor.n
Charles Sumner, who was like q
tower of strength, '.four-square to all
the winds Of Heaven that blow" in
troublous days of the 'fifties, left the
Republican party and supported Gree
ley in the campaign of '72. He also
became ''traitor.''
General Neal Dow, who was one o1
the founders OF that party in Maine
left it in 1885, and became 'straitor. .
John P. St. John, who defied the
"black laws and fed fugitive slave
boy in his front yard where every one
might see it, and who shouldered his
musket at the call of the President
and who was twice made Governor by
the Republicans of Kansas, left tha'
party in 1884, and become a Most un
mitigated "traitor."
General Clinton B. Fisk, a brav,
soldier, an honored philanthropist, and
one Of the earliest and staunchest
friends to the cause out of which thu
Republican party sprang. left it ant
became ''traitor" several years ago
And now there is a revolt in Rhod,
Island against the corrupt machine il
the Republican party. The Providence
4
Journal the strongest paper of tn,
Stats. has revolted. Presidents Robin
son, Of Brown University, has re
volted, aud many of the leading citi
zens are In the movement. And in tht
New York Tribune we read in an edi
torial that
"This band Of traitors is not large, but wha
1t lacks In numbers it has endeavored to max
| up in malignity."
It is about time to settle this ques
ton: Can man leave his old party
in any event. for any cause, withou
being branded before the American
public with that term so full of odiun
that the very children learn to lisp i
with bitterness-traitor?
For political and pathological rea
sons we object to this style of. treat
ment. A man has as much right t,
follow his convictions out of the Re
publican party as he has to follow
them into that party. And we wan
to preserve the word traitor with al
its odium as fitting term for mel
who, like Benedict Arnold, desert thei
country and their cause, to gratif
feelings of personal revenge or ambi
ton. The word is fast being robbe'
of all its terrors and becoming tern
of honor by the use now made of it
We protest, in behalf of the Englisl
language. =. Voice.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-05-05
PARTY "HoRN-HLowINo." "

The Unfair Treatment Which tho Inter-
State Commerce Bill Is Receiving at
Republican Hands.
The newspaper organs which for
party purposes kept up an incessant
demand on successive Democratic Con-
crosses for the passage of an Inter-
State Commerce bill and which hailed
tho adoption of the present measure
with much satisfaction are now very
generally attacking the law, abusing
the Congress which passed it and re-
Wiling the Democratic party for its in
competency. They who look to an
organ for fairness, decency or sense
will be disappointed, but it OCCASION
ally seems as though idiocy and men,
dacity were not essential to the con-
duct even of such wind instruments.
The very journals which are now con-
demninga law which has not as yet
had a pretense of trial were for the
most part the most reckless, enthusi-
astic and vooiferous advocates of its
passage. Such journalism, some of
which is to be seen in Chicago, is moth
ing less than contemplate, no matter
from what standpoint it may be viewed.
For more than ten years the Senate,
with heavy Republican majority most
of the time, defeated every attempt of
the House of Representatives to legis-
late on the National railroad problem.
At length it sprang a dubious device
Of its own, which despa1ring House
was constrained to accept, with some
notifications. No intelligent man be-
lieved that the Cullom-Reagan bill as
finally offered for passage would meet
the requirements of the case, for it was
too palpably the work of enemies as
well as of friends of the principle Of
National control, but it was regarded
as a beginning, and for the purpose of
minimizing any disastrous effects
which it might have the Commission
ers created by it were given full au-
thority to suspend its operation in
cases where they deemed it ad.
visable. Many sincere advocates
of National control would have
preferred to see this bill beaten,
but the clatter of the very organs which
are now attacking the law and the
party held responsible for it, served to
drown the warning voices that were
everywhere raised against it. The bill
was passed, and a commission, admit
tedly composed of capable men, is now
seeking under many disadvantages to
make something out of it.
Whether they succeed in this under
taking or not they will at least be in a
position before many months to report
to Congress what legislation is needed.
1t is an easy matter for party horn
blower to "whoop up the people in
favor of any ill-advised measure falsely
represented as one Of relief for existing
abuses. 1t is easier still for any block
head to cry down a measure once
adopted, of which wise and sincere men
are endeavoring to make the best. The
number of such horn blowers and block
heads in control of party newspapers
is large, but fortunately it IL not In,
ersasinR Chicago Rersid.